Alexander Mezhirov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Mezhirov

Russian writer

Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1923

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 22-May-2009

Profession: poet, translator, literary critic, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Alexander Petrovich Mezhirov (Russian: ????????? ??????? ; September 26, 1923 [but see below] – May 22, 2009) was a Soviet and Russian poet, translator and critic. Mezhirov was among what has been called a "middle generation" of Soviet poets that ignored themes of communist "world revolution" and instead focused on Soviet and Russian patriotism.
Many of them specialized in patriotic lyrics, particularly its military aspects.
According to G.
S.
Smith, Mezhirov and a number of other "middle generation" poets "were genuine poets whose testimony, however well-laundered, to the tribulations of their times will endure at least as long as their generation." Some of Mezhirov's lyrical poems based on his wartime experience belong with the best Russian poetical works created in the Soviet 1950s-1960s.